Designing Assessments of Learning with Technology

In this article, we describe an approach designed to assess student skills as they use information and communications technologies (ICT) to solve complex, significant, recurring academic and applied problems. We describe a Coordinated ICT Assessment Framework and its underpinnings in theory and research. We describe studies of ICT use in schools and highlight the recent Second Information Technology in Education Study: Module 2 (SITES M2) international case studies. We then offer an innovative design approach for assessing students’ performances as they employ a range of reasoning strategies to use technologies to solve academic and applied problems.